Max Mosley has rejected calls to resign from his position as President of the
FIA, after refusing to deny his participation in a sado-masochistic orgy with five prostitutes but insisting there had been no ‘Nazi connotations' as has been suggested.
The
News of the World led its coverage on Sunday with the explosive front page headline ‘
F1 boss Max Mosley has sick Nazi orgy with 5 hookers', and subsequently posted a video on its website.
The £2,500, five-hour experience in which the tabloid claimed the 67-year-old participated allegedly included re-enacting concentration camp scenes in which girls wearing mock death camp uniforms were repeatedly whipped by commandants clad in Nazi war uniforms and barking orders in German.
After maintaining his silence for three days, however, now it appears Mosley has finally spoken out, with a letter he sent to FIA officials that has been obtained by the
Associated Press confirming his presence at the orgy – which the
News of the World stated took place in an underground Chelsea ‘torture chamber' close to his London home – but refuting any suggestions of ‘Nazi connotations' to the role-playing and explaining that he spoke in German simply because at least two of the five prostitutes involved were German.
“I have received a very large number of messages of sympathy and support,” Mosley wrote, “suggesting that my private life is not relevant to my work and that I should continue in my role. I am grateful and with your support I intend to follow this advice.
“The publications by the
News of the World are a wholly unwarranted invasion of my privacy, and I intend to issue legal proceedings against the newspaper in the UK and other jurisdictions.”
